"a lot of the confusion is going to come down to the fact that you're not an American who is getting dragged into socio political issues" That's partly my poin

"a lot of the confusion is going to come down to the fact that you're not an American who is getting dragged into socio political issues" That's partly my point though. That if you are bombarded with 'racism' as a topic daily, and want to do something about it, you are tempted to do something, at least something, and once you are actively looking for problems, you will find them. Once you are convinced that it's everywhere and has to go, there is next to no limit where your quest might lead you. It having lead to this right here is the perfect example. 'Master/Slave is in fact a pretty terrible description' 'primary/secondary' is nice, master/slave is just extremely ingrained, let's agree on that, so you know what is meant by it. I deeply hope we won't have 500 various naming conventions for what used to be called master/slave. "But who would see black and white as a description of skin color? Pretty much every American." Then let's discuss THE CAUSE FOR THIS. Because it's wrong, it's wrong to invoke race everywhere those two colors are mentioned in some specific context. Is renaming everything maybe just putting a shade over something that Americans should confront themselves with more honestly, more deeply, because I know via my upbringing, that I never would have thought about whitelist/blacklist as skin color, it would have been so far away from my radar... maybe you think renaming master/slave here will somehow have a ripple effect, or is part of something bigger and a warranted change. I think it will do exactly nothing, and is just blind activism that breaks decades of convention. 'That is a pretty poor explanation of the phenomena at hand.' I was over simplifying on purpose, because what I wanted to portray was 'someone outside of it' I guess. 'software is probably the absolutely smallest portion of a massive change.' I think it's just something to make people feel better, 'we've done something about it now', it's the 'smallest portion' of massive change, it's also the most non-impactful, which is why I find the case for it to be weak.